The second Oxford Book of Lent and Easter Organ Music brings together a rich and varied selection of pieces for use from Ash Wednesday through to Pentecost. Encompassing works suitable for liturgical, concert, and pedagogical settings, this collection presents contemporary voices alongside historical favourites, serving as an invaluable and comprehensive resource for a major part of the church year.
- 30 pieces for manuals and pedals, suitable for use during Lent, Palm Sunday, Holy Week, Easter, Ascension, and Pentecost
- Seven new commissions from composers including Matthew Owens, Amy Summers, Trevor Weston, and Alison Willis
- A broad range of original music for organ, spanning the seventeenth to twenty-first centuries, from composers such as Georg Friedrich Kauffman, Max Reger, Cécile Chaminade, Henriette Puig-Roget, and Cecilia McDowall
- A variety of musical forms, styles, and technical difficulties, all arranged in liturgical order
- Four new arrangements of Lenten and Easter pieces by Robert Gower and a new arrangement by John Rutter of his organ duet Variations on an Easter Theme for solo organ
